From: ryguy7272 on
Thanks Captain Jack. I just saw the solution here:
http://visualbasic.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/visualbasic-l/opening-a-new-excel-file-in-vb6-561487

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"Captain Jack" wrote:

> "ryguy7272" <ryguy7272(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D2122F9D-BC07-4397-BB2F-E5F79117BB89(a)microsoft.com...
> > Thanks Patrice. I added this:
> > Dim EXL As Excel.Workbook
> >
> > Then, when I run the project, I get this message: 'object variable or with
> > block variable not set'
> >
> > This line i syellow:
> > WSheet = EXL.Workbooks.Open("C:\TEST.XLS").Worksheets.Item(1)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Ryan---
> >
>
> Workbooks is a property of the Excel Application object, so your EXL
> variable would need to be of that type. Also, you're declaring it, but
> you're not assigning it a value, so that's why you're getting the error.
>
> To declare EXL so it will work, you'll need something like this:
>
> Dim EXL As New Excel.Application
>
> This will start an Excel process on your system. If you don't want to see a
> window for it, you may want to set the Visible property of EXL to False.
> When you're done processing your file, you'll probably want to call the Quit
> method of EXL to stop the running application.
>
> --
> Jack
>
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